The NYC Poverty Atlas brings insights from the NYC Government Poverty Measure into an interactive web tool. Launching with poverty data through 2024, users can create custom visualizations, explore trends in poverty across NYC, and see how affordability pressures and public benefits shape economic outcomes for low-income New Yorkers.

NYC Opportunity is partnering on awards for new contracts supporting training and employment programs for people with disabilities. This investment will use an innovative “co-design” approach that enables people with disabilities to contribute their lived experience and help design the programs alongside workforce providers and employers.

Pavel Ilin, a member of our Digital Products team, was honored with a 2026 Hayes Innovation Prize for his work spearheading the rebuild and launch of My File NYC, a digital platform that gives New Yorkers a safe and secure place to store vital documents and share them when applying for City services.

The Community Compensation Fund (CCF) pilot program offers cash gift cards (physical or digital) to City Agency teams to engage and compensate community members for their time and input participating in activities that improve the City’s work. Help us build evidence about the impact investments of this kind can have.

The NYC Benefits Platform allows City agencies and other organizations to use our screening technology and plain-language content to help New Yorkers discover the 40+ public benefits and services they may qualify for at scale.